Looks like everyone had trouble parking their cars in my neighborhood due to the recent snow & ice storm.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Fast Food Nation
I was so looking forward to a free lecture at F&M College on Monday, March 19th by Eric Schlosser, author of FAST FOOD NATION. I just found out that the free tickets are 'sold out'. BUMMER....but back to Eric, whose work has appeared in all my favorite magazines, which I do have subscriptions too: Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Nation and The New Yorker. Wikipedia reports that he rarely makes appearances in public. I read FFN when it was first released in Hardcover and I was blown away. I really like Eric's style of investigative writing with an emphasis on history. I was, of course, delighted to find out that one my favorite directors, Richard Linklater, made FFN into a film. The DVD is set to b released March 6, 2007.
The film is an ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the Fast Food Industry and its environmental and social consequences.
The truth is hard to swallow.
I hope I am able to get tickets!!!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Oscar Picks
I must admit I haven't seen ever film that is nominated but I have viewed alot of the films..... so here are my picks for this Sunday's Oscars.
Picture=Babal
Director=Martin Scorsee
Actor=Forest Whitaker
Actress=Helen Mirren
Supporting Actress=Abigail Bresil
Supporting Actor=Djimon Hounsou
Orginal Screenplay=Babal
Documentary Feature=An Inconvenient Truth
Foreign Language Film=Pam's Labyrinth
Cinematography=Children of Men
Adapted Screenplay=The Departed
Monday, February 19, 2007
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
On Thursday, February 22, 2007 @ 9:30pm HBO will will show a new film by Rory Kennedy called, THE GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB: FACING THE DARKNESS WITHIN. In this documentary Rory Kennedy interviews everyone from the enlisted to the top brass. Some of the ex-guards struggle with guilt others seem almost flip about the torture. Entertainment Weekly writes that within this film the stories of the detainees are unforgettable, haunted not just by their own treatment, but by the screams of others. As one man puts it, "We listened as his soul cracked." Watch it!!
Thursday, February 15, 2007
The New Yorker-Talk of the Town
Imagine my surprise, when I opened up The New Yorker's Anniversary Edition, Feb. 19th & 26, 2007, which arrived yesterday in the mail and in the Talk of the Town section there was an article of Lancaster's own, Jonathan Groff. Groff, 21 years old is the male lead in the critically adored musical, "Spring Awakening" now on Broadway. The article describes Groff and his co-star John Gallagher, Jr. debut as runway models in a fashion show by designer Jill Stuart in the grand entrance hall of New York Public Library. Yes, last week was Fashion week in NYC.
www.newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
John J. Jeffries
Restaurant Review Key
*Poor
**Below Average
***Average
****Above Average
*****Excellent
John J. Jeffries is inspiring. We are what we eat and the night we dined at JJJ we were living the good life with a clear conscience. The food and the wine were perfect not to mention the impeccable service. I can't wait for Spring to arrive and to dine on the outside patio under the stars at JJJ.
I am giving John J. Jeffries Restaurant at Lancaster Arts Hotal a ***** =Excellent review.
Monday, February 12, 2007
DTWOF=Alison Bechdel is coming to Lancaster
Alison Bechdel is coming to Lancaster. She will be @ Stager Hall on the F&M campus, Wednesday, Feb. 28th @ 8pm.
Since its inception in 1983, Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For has become a countercultural institution. The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages and collected in a series of award-winning books. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.” And Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.”
In addition to her comic strip, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for a slew of publications, including Ms., Slate, the Advocate, and many other newspapers, websites, comic books, and ‘zines.
In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The bestselling coming-of-age tale has been called a “mesmerizing feat of familial resurrection” and a “rare, prime example of why graphic novels have taken over the conversation about American literature.”
Bechdel lives near Burlington, Vermont. Check out her website: http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/alison-bechdel/
This event is free but tickets are needed. For tickets call 717-291-4244.
Since its inception in 1983, Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For has become a countercultural institution. The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages and collected in a series of award-winning books. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as “one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century.” And Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.”
In addition to her comic strip, Bechdel has also done exclusive work for a slew of publications, including Ms., Slate, the Advocate, and many other newspapers, websites, comic books, and ‘zines.
In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. The bestselling coming-of-age tale has been called a “mesmerizing feat of familial resurrection” and a “rare, prime example of why graphic novels have taken over the conversation about American literature.”
Bechdel lives near Burlington, Vermont. Check out her website: http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/alison-bechdel/
This event is free but tickets are needed. For tickets call 717-291-4244.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Takin' My Valentines to Dinner
From the Lancaster Arts Hotel web site concerning their Restaurant:
The good life includes a good restaurant meal and a clear conscience.
Seasonal. Sustainable. Straight from the farm to your table. Food that has meaning. Food grown with love and prepared with care. Food with a conscience. Food so fresh you can taste the sunshine and the fields. Experience the flavors of Executive Chef Sean Cavanaugh's seasonal American cuisine in the relaxed and cozy atmosphere of our Lancaster restaurant.
In honor of the history of our building, our restaurant is named after a tobacco inspector from the late nineteenth century. During renovations, builders found an inspection ticket signed by John J. Jeffries and dated November 1890. In honor of the local small family farms that are as passionate about growing and raising their produce and livestock as our chefs are about cooking it, we change our menu regularly to reflect the seasonality of their best products. All our produce is local and organic or free of chemicals. Our meats are raised locally and range freely on grass pastures without hormones, anitibiotics, steroids or force fertizilization. Additionally, our bar features local Lancaster micro-brews on tap.
We seat approximately 100 in its main dining area and full-service bar. An outdoor patio offers up to 80 seats, weather permitting.
We believe in sustaining the environment and sustaining the economies of the communities where we live and eat. We encourage you to say, “NO,” to factory farms and explore where your food comes from and how it is raised.
Enjoy fine dining in Lancaster’s finest organic restaurant!
For reservations, please call 717.431.3307.
My review to follow after dinning there this week. Check out their web site:http://www.lancasterartshotel.com/index.html
Click on the link for TOURS to see some photos of the Hotel and Lancaster City.
The good life includes a good restaurant meal and a clear conscience.
Seasonal. Sustainable. Straight from the farm to your table. Food that has meaning. Food grown with love and prepared with care. Food with a conscience. Food so fresh you can taste the sunshine and the fields. Experience the flavors of Executive Chef Sean Cavanaugh's seasonal American cuisine in the relaxed and cozy atmosphere of our Lancaster restaurant.
In honor of the history of our building, our restaurant is named after a tobacco inspector from the late nineteenth century. During renovations, builders found an inspection ticket signed by John J. Jeffries and dated November 1890. In honor of the local small family farms that are as passionate about growing and raising their produce and livestock as our chefs are about cooking it, we change our menu regularly to reflect the seasonality of their best products. All our produce is local and organic or free of chemicals. Our meats are raised locally and range freely on grass pastures without hormones, anitibiotics, steroids or force fertizilization. Additionally, our bar features local Lancaster micro-brews on tap.
We seat approximately 100 in its main dining area and full-service bar. An outdoor patio offers up to 80 seats, weather permitting.
We believe in sustaining the environment and sustaining the economies of the communities where we live and eat. We encourage you to say, “NO,” to factory farms and explore where your food comes from and how it is raised.
Enjoy fine dining in Lancaster’s finest organic restaurant!
For reservations, please call 717.431.3307.
My review to follow after dinning there this week. Check out their web site:http://www.lancasterartshotel.com/index.html
Click on the link for TOURS to see some photos of the Hotel and Lancaster City.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Interesting fact
On a typical 16th century English warship, a sailor's weekly ration of beer was about eight galons, or roughly Ten Pints per Day.
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